Topic: Trump’s America

I cannot give myself over to a cycle of inadequacy and shame. So, what can I do? If you receive news from as many sources as I do — New York Times, Washington Post, Facebook, Twitter, that gun control group I joined four years ago, the Islamic Cultural Center I once donated to, the Southern Poverty […]

Looking to literature to make sense of our world is essential, but we must draw from a wide array of works that speak to the layers and subtleties of our nuanced world. As a professor who has lectured, researched and written about literature for almost 20 years, it’s heartening to see a truly great work […]

As so many of us who do social justice work are rapidly cycling through the stages of grief, prioritizing what needs to be done feels nearly impossible. Usually it’s the president who goes prematurely gray. Over the next four years, I expect that it will be those of us with marginalized, targeted identities who will […]